[Development] Qt 5.5.0 header diff

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:35:45AM +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:
> On 08/06/15 23:58, "development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Monday 08 June 2015 22:31:15 Marc Mutz wrote:
> >> It would probably be a good idea to do an additional header diff (incl. new 
> >> headers) on the ML after the alpha. I don't follow the development of
> >> modules other than QtBase closely, nor do I want to, and apparently I'm too
> >> strict a reviewer to be regularly invited on new API
> 
> Agree. Let's put this into our planning for 5.6. One header diff/review at the time we branch 5.6, and a final one to cross-check before the RC.
> 
> 
> >
> >Well, that's exactly the kind of people we want reviewing our APIs...
> 
> Thiago's right. If there's one place we want to be very strict it's on our APIs. Everything else we can still fix later on, but APIs are out there and will stick for a long time, so we better get them right.
> 
wouldn't that mean pulling the emergency brake on 5.5 and allowing a
further ~two week slip in the schedule to actually fix the problem now
that we are aware of it? i think we already have enough experience with
how well "next time" works in practice ...